Need Help from the OOT ppl (Law advice)

[Sykes]

Recently on Saturday Night (starting at 1am), I had 2 people over my house to just hang out.

One of the friends, is usually over the house on saturdays. The other is not. Although, the other, Let's call him, Mr. X, was away at college and just came back home.

Mr. X has a history of not paying back loans (to several people, including me which he owes roughly $450).

Mr. X asks to see my card collection (around 2:30)(which I have no problem with, also, he knows the values of every card I own)

I put the cards back at around 3.

Mr. X leaves around 4. For some reason, call me paranoid, I go back to where I placed my cards, and one particular card is missing. Now if it was a card that was valued at $20ish, I could care less about it, but the card is worth around $350-400, and is quite rare.

I confront Mr.X, and he gets jittery and looks like he's about to cry because he can't believe I'd accuse him of stealing.

Mr. X is like, I'll empty out my pockets, which he does (but honestly, you can hide a card anywhere..)

Mr. X leaves.

I search for the card.. Still can't find the card.

Ask for Mr.X to come back the next day to search for the card(sunday or monday) and doesn't. Leaves town to go to work on Tuesday..

Leaves me a voice mail message on my cell where he says he'll pay me $800 (previous debt+price of card) if I really think Mr.X took it.


Now wednesday night and I've looked everywhere.

What can I do? Any legal action I can take here?